# Orca

> Orca is a San Francisco startup (Y Combinator S24) that lets anyone build, host, and play Minecraft games without writing code. You describe a mod, plugin, or world in plain English and Orca's AI writes the code, generates textures, compiles a real mod, tests it, and can deploy it live to a free 8 GB server in seconds. The company frames its ambition as building a Roblox-style creator platform on top of Minecraft's 300M+ player base, playable from a browser or a free desktop client.

- **Founded:** 2024
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Ege Kaan Duman (Co-founder & CEO), Ali Kavoosi (Co-founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** 2
- **Products:** AI Minecraft Mod Maker, Plugin Generator, Bedrock Addon Creator, Free Server Hosting, Orca Desktop App
- **Notable:** Accepted into Y Combinator's S24 batch, Launched an AI agent that writes, compiles, and tests real Minecraft mods across Fabric, Forge, and Bedrock, Ships a free 8 GB Minecraft server that goes live in ~30 seconds

## Products & services

- **AI Minecraft Mod Maker** — Describe a mob, item, block, or feature in plain English; Orca's AI writes the code, generates textures, compiles a real mod, and tests it. Supports Fabric, Forge, and NeoForge.
- **Plugin Generator** — Generates and deploys plugins for Paper and Spigot servers from a plain-English description, building and pushing them live automatically.
- **Bedrock Addon Creator** — Creates Bedrock addons so mods work across Minecraft's Bedrock edition, not just Java.
- **Free Server Hosting** — A free 8 GB Minecraft server on every account, live in about 30 seconds, supporting vanilla, Paper, Fabric, Forge and 6,000+ modpacks, up to 40 players, with automatic version upgrades and crash-log analysis.
- **Orca Desktop App** — Free client for Windows, macOS (Apple Silicon), and Linux that launches Minecraft with your mods and gets you in-game in one click.
- **Browser Play & Launcher** — Play, mod, and host Minecraft directly from the browser; a launcher that turns Minecraft into a game platform where players browse and join experiences with one click.
- **Resource Pack / Texture & Datapack Tools** — AI resource-pack maker for textures, plus datapack and custom-mob generators, and a Minecraft CLI / MCP (Model Context Protocol) integration.

## Achievements

- Accepted into Y Combinator's S24 batch
- Launched an AI agent that writes, compiles, and tests real Minecraft mods across Fabric, Forge, and Bedrock
- Ships a free 8 GB Minecraft server that goes live in ~30 seconds
- Multiple public Product Hunt launches (AI Agent for Game Development, Dec 2025; browser play, Feb 2026)

## Latest updates

- **2026-02** — Product Hunt launch of browser-based play - mod and host Minecraft from any device with AI.
- **2025-12** — Product Hunt launch of Orca's AI Agent for game development, which builds mods and reloads Minecraft to test them in-place.

## Links

- Website: https://orcaclient.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/orcagamedev
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/orca_gamedev

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Last updated: 2026-07-30